Top 100 In Coping Quotes

#1. Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

Albert Bandura

In Coping Quotes #662195
#2. Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

In Coping Quotes #721973
#3. You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be.

Angelica Hopes

In Coping Quotes #880061
#4. Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

Elizabeth Janeway

In Coping Quotes #59899
#5. Over the top and under the bottom, I wedge myself in opposite directions to stay in the middle of everything.

Lisa M. Cronkhite

In Coping Quotes #1176247
#6. I guess in the end, it doesn't matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

Mira Grant

In Coping Quotes #765456
#7. When I was in my 20s, I thought that being known for 'Swimming Pool' was kind of a burden. Like, 'OK, everyone thinks I am this tanned bimbo,' and I was having problems coping with that image.

Ludivine Sagnier

In Coping Quotes #1149065
#8. ... depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.

Jan Wong

In Coping Quotes #1140165
#9. If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

The Prolific Penman

In Coping Quotes #1129630
#10. All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Wally Lamb

In Coping Quotes #1128051
#11. There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life, things aren't black or white, but rather there's a lot of coping and really tough decision making.

Laura San Giacomo

In Coping Quotes #1125042
#12. Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

Rachel Cusk

In Coping Quotes #1111394
#13. Yes, he was depressed, but he was coping the way people in the growth mindset tend to cope - with determination.

Carol S. Dweck

In Coping Quotes #1102651
#14. When a person is in emotional pain, it's hard to be rational and to think of a good solution. Nevertheless, many of the coping strategies used by people with overwhelming emotions only serve to make their problems worse.

Matthew McKay

In Coping Quotes #1073299
#15. Wherever she sought solitude, she was never alone. Suddenly that wasn't a bad thing. There was safety in numbers greater than one and sanity in knowing that everyone healed. If everyone has scars, there are two choices. Bleed to death slowly or stitch yourself together.

Nicki Salcedo

In Coping Quotes #1028721
#16. We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.

Sarah Winter

In Coping Quotes #1021347
#17. I narrate the story but he dies off-stage between commercials. A washing machine ad later, we are dressed in our funereal best. We sniffle and indulge in product placement for Kleenex. The credits roll.

Thomm Quackenbush

In Coping Quotes #1004046
#18. I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore.

Neil Young

In Coping Quotes #980802
#19. I lock all my scaredness down in my stomach until the fear hardens into something I hardly notice. I myself harden into a person that I hardly notice.

Mary Karr

In Coping Quotes #959714
#20. Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.

Jean Chatzky

In Coping Quotes #955933
#21. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.

Neil Gaiman

In Coping Quotes #937636
#22. I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.

Kathryn Lasky

In Coping Quotes #925037
#23. Children of the mentally ill learn early on how not to be a bother, especially if they grew up with neglect. As my sister insisted once, when she was in severe pain after injuring her ankle, 'This isn't me! This is not who I am!

Mira Bartok

In Coping Quotes #901508
#24. In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

Herman Kahn

In Coping Quotes #844954
#25. Howlett speculated that the human cannabinoid system evolved to help us endure (and selectively forget) the routine slings and arrows of life "so that we can get up in the morning and do it all over again." It is the brain's own drug for coping with the human condition.

Michael Pollan

In Coping Quotes #831056
#26. When entering a room full of soldiers who fear hearts
you put your heart in your back pocket.

Cherrie L. Moraga

In Coping Quotes #826499
#27. The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.

Kelli Jae Baeli

In Coping Quotes #782152
#28. I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people ... I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

Keanu Reeves

In Coping Quotes #1802311
#29. One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

Marianne Williamson

In Coping Quotes #1376544
#30. What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.

Nancy Reagan

In Coping Quotes #1787113
#31. The mind knows the truth when your heart denies what it feels. When you don't feel safe to let people in it is because you're not ready to deal with the pain of honesty.

Shannon L. Alder

In Coping Quotes #1762213
#32. You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.

Alysha Speer

In Coping Quotes #1721103
#33. There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

Jane Hamilton

In Coping Quotes #1705849
#34. A little manic was okay. A little manic paid the bills and got him up in the morning, made him magic when he needed it most.

Rainbow Rowell

In Coping Quotes #1695149
#35. The door slams in response, and I laugh. I'm glad she can laugh. It means she really is coping. I know she's internalizing a lot, though. Putting on a show for me. She'll have new scars on her wrists soon.

Jasinda Wilder

In Coping Quotes #1654881
#36. She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.

Dennis Lehane

In Coping Quotes #1631688
#37. Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

In Coping Quotes #1492330
#38. All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.

Karl Ove Knausgard

In Coping Quotes #1487040
#39. On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.
Evolution is win-win ... life is self-correcting.

Deepak Chopra

In Coping Quotes #1474145
#40. The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I

Linda Tirado

In Coping Quotes #1418424
#41. Overcopulation
The Main Street Babbitts
are fucking like rabbits,
competing and coping
in a crowded place,
overeating and moping,
bleating and hoping,
it's not the end
of the human race.

Beryl Dov

In Coping Quotes #1186056
#42. If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

T. S. Eliot

In Coping Quotes #1375636
#43. But I don't believe in heroes anymore. I just believe in people coping with their lives as best they can. You do what you have to do, and in some ways you have no more choice about it than a rock has about falling from a high place.

John Varley

In Coping Quotes #1371357
#44. She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

Nevil Shute

In Coping Quotes #1356126
#45. The traits that bother you in other people are the Coping Skills they developed automatically, as a result of their life experience.

Odille Rault

In Coping Quotes #1353205
#46. She wished it were evening now, wished for the great relief of the calendar inking itself out, of day done and night coming, of ice cubes knocking about in a glass beneath the whisky spilling in, that fine brown affirmation of need.

Michelle Latiolais

In Coping Quotes #1352509
#47. He'd spent too long being disappointed by the world - he'd spent so many years pining for something like this, some proof that the real world wasn't the only world, and coping with the overwhelming evidence that it in fact was.

Lev Grossman

In Coping Quotes #1260295
#48. As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

John Ridley

In Coping Quotes #1247650
#49. One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

Robin Ince

In Coping Quotes #1239544
#50. Your iPod is whispering in your ear. It was keeping you company, but now it's like a good friend turned bad [ ... ] It is turning your life into a dark, looping rock opera.

Meg Jay

In Coping Quotes #1234517
#51. Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

Cathy Freeman

In Coping Quotes #1201483
#52. Once an individual shines bright walking in average light to some may appear as dim surroundings..

Victoria Addino

In Coping Quotes #1195217
#53. Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.

Don Polson

In Coping Quotes #149985
#54. If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.

R.D. Ronald

In Coping Quotes #303398
#55. Isolation is not a healthy 'coping' method, it's like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!

Joshua Stannard

In Coping Quotes #296526
#56. Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster.

Annette Curtis Klause

In Coping Quotes #289286
#57. Religion is (a) a pre-scientific system of explanation and technology; (b) a source of meaning, direction and emotional expression in life; (c) a means of social control; (d) a means of coping with uncertainty and death.

Max More

In Coping Quotes #278799
#58. I say it must have been great to grow up when men were men. He says men have always been what the are now, namely incapable of coping with life without the intervention of God the Almighty. Then in the oven behind him my pizza starts smoking and he says case in point.

George Saunders

In Coping Quotes #246729
#59. If you think of the moon as already used, it's not as difficult to take in,
because then it's just like you,
Traveled the world like you,
Seen the globe like you,
But, it's still bright.

Adrianna Stepiano

In Coping Quotes #244746
#60. By the time the clock had moved past midnight on Christmas 1993, they finally clicked the last piece into place: Angola, nestled between Zaire and Namibia and bordering the vast lapping Atlantic. Then, having succeeded in putting the world back together, they went to bed.

Jessie Ann Foley

In Coping Quotes #214247
#61. In a world where survival is always seen as a struggle, and in which some pitfalls always exist, if something brings into question our confidence in our own coping ability, it will threaten our safety.

Willard Gaylin

In Coping Quotes #209826
#62. She doesn't like sitting about, no matter what is wrong in life. It does you good to have something ahead of you, regardless how small.

Maggie O'Farrell

In Coping Quotes #189815
#63. False reasons trapped in your old bean. Failure isn't your nemesis, denial of truth is.

Ymatruz

In Coping Quotes #180488
#64. There are many things in life that can help you to cope with emotions that have a habit of bringing you down. Just always remember; help comes in all forms, and not necessarily only from people.

Martin R. Lemieux

In Coping Quotes #154370
#65. Until then we're going to keep making memories like this, moments when we're the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we'll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they'll make us feel safe. And strong.

Laurie Halse Anderson

In Coping Quotes #306466
#66. Ironically, the worship of of death as a strategy for coping with our underlying fear of death's power does not truly give us solace. It is deeply anxiety producing. The more we watch spectacles of death, of random violence and cruelty, the more afraid we become in our daily lives.

Bell Hooks

In Coping Quotes #131649
#67. Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

Jack LaLanne

In Coping Quotes #121191
#68. I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.

Al Pacino

In Coping Quotes #103990
#69. The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door.

Thomm Quackenbush

In Coping Quotes #81556
#70. You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Paul Theroux

In Coping Quotes #80366
#71. You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained.

Suzette Boon

In Coping Quotes #67333
#72. We all handle loss in our individual ways, grieve in all kinds of ways. We all go through feeling okay sometimes, but other times, we feel so bad we hurt ourselves or those around us.

E. Journey

In Coping Quotes #52272
#73. 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

Jeff Cooper

In Coping Quotes #26160
#74. Girls are genius at getting through sexual abuse. Often the only way to get through is not to feel. And that is exactly what these fantasy worlds allow: They give girls a place to go so they don't have to be present in their violated bodies. Brilliant.

Patti Feuereisen

In Coping Quotes #23505
#75. Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Malcolm Bradbury

In Coping Quotes #13232
#76. Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.

Richelle E. Goodrich

In Coping Quotes #3850
#77. I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

Ransom Riggs

In Coping Quotes #523445
#78. I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

J.G. Ballard

In Coping Quotes #714463
#79. I scrutinized the lyrics to every worship song, debated the content of every sermon. I rendered verdicts regarding the frequency of communion and the method of baptism. I checked the bulletins for typos. In some religious traditions, this particular coping mechanism is known as pride.

Rachel Held Evans

In Coping Quotes #706718
#80. For a year she found an exquisite pain - almost pleasure - in facing the world as if she didn't care. Look at me, she would say to herself in the middle of a trying day. Look at me: I'm surviving; I'm coping; I'm in control of all this.

Richard Yates

In Coping Quotes #689220
#81. I used self-injury as a coping mechanism to help me overcome the emotional stress that I was incapable of dealing with in any other way. Self-injury was a means of escape, a way to relieve the numbness, and an expression of the pain within me. Something that the police wouldn't care about.

Stephen Richards

In Coping Quotes #687722
#82. Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'

Jane McGonigal

In Coping Quotes #683302
#83. Sometimes it's a mistake to look too far down the road. There are times in life when you can't be sure of the pattern. You have to meet circumstances as they are.

Jayne Ann Krentz

In Coping Quotes #645963
#84. (on Liam Neeson's coping with the death of his wife) ... It's been years and he continues to struggle each and every day, but he is honest with himself about how he feels and continues to work to find acceptance in heartbreak.

Huffington Post

In Coping Quotes #617933
#85. He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

Victoria Schwab

In Coping Quotes #600258
#86. Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

In Coping Quotes #599781
#87. [When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In Coping Quotes #596511
#88. These problems have been here so long that the only way I've been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.

Mark Bowden

In Coping Quotes #546951
#89. How often do we truly feel accepted?
Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something?
How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?
How do we gratefully accept rejection?
With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection.

Angelica Hopes

In Coping Quotes #715406
#90. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.

Nick Saint Clair

In Coping Quotes #517492
#91. It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.

Carol Anne Dobson

In Coping Quotes #472161
#92. You can't remain in a state of sheer panic and terror indefinitely, and both had run their course. Ever since, I've thought that must be why we cry: our bodies are coping with something our minds and hearts can't absorb by themselves.

Saroo Brierley

In Coping Quotes #471188
#93. It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.

Jon Michaelsen

In Coping Quotes #453689
#94. Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.

Chevy Stevens

In Coping Quotes #448280
#95. In fact almost everyone in my yearbook wrote the same thing to me: "To weird girl, you're nice." I didn't think it was bad. When I showed my mother she said, "Everyone is different." Being weird became my tool. I'm weird; that's who I am. It was my coping badge.

Jenny Lawson

In Coping Quotes #423125
#96. What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.

Carrie Jones

In Coping Quotes #394981
#97. Disassociation. It is a word I have heard before but never in reference to that mind trick I had used to cope. That trick isn't a figment of my imagination. It was real. It had a name. And if the coping mechanism was real, it means what I have experienced was real too.

Elizabeth Esther

In Coping Quotes #392725
#98. Waiting exposes our idols and throws a wrench into our coping mechanisms. It brings us to the end of what we can control and forces us to cry out to God. God doesn't waste our waiting. He uses it to conform us to the image of his Son.

Betsy Childs Howard

In Coping Quotes #377948
#99. It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness seems irrelevant, like a rumor, something I'm supposed to care about but don't.

Lauren Miller

In Coping Quotes #373473
#100. Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

Jan Wong

In Coping Quotes #343614

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